Shade and curtain bracket.



- 0. P. NICHOLSON.

SHADE AND CURTAIN BRACKET.

APPLICATION FILED NOV. s, 1906.

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' PATENTED MAR. 12, 1907.

CHARLES F. NICHOLSON, OF PENN GROVE, NEW JERSEY.

SHADE AND CURTAIN BRACKET.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented March 12, 1907.

Application filed November 3, 1906. Serial No, 341,939.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLEs F. NICHOL- soN, a citizen of the UnitedStates of America, residing at Penn Grove, in the county of Salem andState of New Jersey, have invented new and useful Improvements in Shadeand Curtain Brackets, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in shade and curtain brackets,and is designed to provide a simple and effective construction ofbracket which can be cheaply manufac tured from a single piece of wireand which may be employed for supporting both a shade-roller and acurtain-rod.

In the accompanying drawing, Figure 1 is a perspective view of thebracket for supporting the angular end of the spring-shaft of theshade-roller. Fig. 2 is a similar view of the companion bracket adaptedto support the journal end of the shade-roller.

Referring to the drawing, the numerals 1 and 2 designate companionbrackets for supporting the opposite ends of a shade-roller andcurtain-pole The bracket 1 is constructed of a single piece of wire bentto form an upper arm 3, a lower arm 4, said arms being horizontallyarranged, a vertical rear arm 5, and a supporting portion 6. The arm 5eX- tends within the arm 3 and is provided above and below the same witheyes 7 and 8 for the passage of fastenings to secure the bracket to thewindow-frame, while thearm 3 is formed at its rear or free end with aneye 9, engaging said arm 5 between the eyes 7 and 8, whereby theterminals of the wire composing the bracket are connected. The lower arm4 is bent downward at its point of junction with the arm 5 to provide aloop 10, designed. to serve the function of a holder for one end of acurtain-rod. The supporting portion 6 is formed between the forward endsof the arms 3 and 4, the wire being looped at such point to provide aslotted holder 11 for the reception of the angular end of thespringshaft of the shade-roller. In the production of this slot the arm4 is bent upwardly, as indicated at 12, while the arm 3 is bentdownwardly and then upwardly into connection with the part 12 to providea U-shaped bend forming a slotted holder. The bracket 2 is generallysimilar in construction to the bracketl; but its supporting portion 6has the wire composing a portion thereof coiled to form an, eye orbearing 13 for the trunnion on the opposite end of the shade-roller. It

will be observed that the supporting portion is here shown substantiallyin the form of a U-shaped loop, the extremities of which connect withthe arms 3 and 4. Preferably the brackets l and 2 are respectivelyprovided with lateral offsets l4 and 15 to project the supportingelements 11 and 13 inwardly at one side beyond the plane of the bodyportions of the brackets. By this construction the brackets may besecured on the inner faces of the jambs of the window-frame to supportcomparatively narrow windowshades and curtain-rods in an effectivemanner, as the supporting portions of the brackets will he a suflicientdistance from the frame to form intervening spaces into which theangular end of the spring-shaft at one end of the roller and the journalon the other end of the roller may project.

It will be seen that the construction is such as to permit of theeffective manufacture of the bracket from a single piece of wire in aready and convenient manner, whereby the minimum cost of production isinsured. By means of the portions 10 an upper rod may be supported fromthe brackets for the use, in conjunction with the shade, of lace orother curtains hung from the rod and suitably attached at their lowerends to the windowframe.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed as new isl. Abracket of the character described comprising a single piece of wirebent to form an upper horizontal arm having an eye at the rear endthereof, a lower horizontal arm, a vertical attaching-arm extendingthrough the eye of the upper horizontal arm and provided above and belowthe same with attaching members, a looped portion connecting the rearend of the lower horizontal arm to the lower end of the vertical arm, asupporting portion arranged at and connecting the forward ends of saidhorizontal arm and offset from the plane thereof.

2. A bracket of the character described comprisinga single piece of wirehaving one of its ends arranged to form an upper horizontal arm havingan eye at the rear free end thereof, and its opposite end arranged toform a vertical attaching-arm extending upwardly through said eye andprovided with attaching members above and below the same, theintermediate portion of the wire being bent to rovide a lower horizontalarm, a depending ooped portion connecting the rear end of said arm withthe lower end of the lower arm, and a supporting portion ar ranged atand joining the forward ends of the horizontal arms.

3. A bracket of the character described comprising a singe piece of wirebent to form a supporting portion and upper and lower arms, the upperarm being provided at its rear end with an eye, and a verticalattaching-arm extending u wardly from the rear end of the horizonta armthrough said eye and provided above and below the same with attachingmembers.

4. A bracket of the character described comprising a single piece ofwire bent to form upper and lower horizontal arms, one longer than theother, the upper horizontal arm being provided at its rear end with aneye, a vertical attaching-arm extending upwardly through the eye andprovided above and below the same with attaching portions, a dependinglooped portion connecting the rear end of the lower horizontal arm withthe lower end of the vertical attaching-arm, and a supporting portionarranged at and connecting the forward ends of the horizontal arms, saidportion being offset from the plane of the said arms.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

CHARLES E. NICHOLSON. [1. 3.] Witnesses:

LnsLrn WooD, JOHN H. VOGEDING.

